Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist based in London. He has written for numerous publications including the Telegraph, Spectator, Wall Street Journal and Sunday Times. He is a columnist for Standpoint magazine and the Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, a Westminster think-tank which studies radicalisation and extremism in Britain.

'Vote for Change' with Sir Malcolm Rifkind. Really?

This election hasn't been short of bitter laughs. But last night I had perhaps my final one of the campaign.

Visiting a friend in the terribly smart new constituency of Kensington (formerly Kensington and Chelsea) I saw the incumbent local Conservative party candidate's leaflet.

Alongside the Conservative party's naked Obama-wannabe slogan 'Vote for Change' was the photograph and name of… Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

Now I have a degree of respect for Sir Malcolm Rifkind and admire a number of things he has done in his career. But a vote for Rifkind as a vote for change? Really? Vote for change by voting for the man who was Defence Secretary when I was still at school?